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jenny-dreadful · 2 years ago

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yk when someone confidently slides on their socks into a complex ongoing discourse to be like “um actually. [term] means [thing] 💅” all smug, and expect to be taken seriously, not realizing they completely lack a concept of a specific and contextually-applicable usage which everybody else here already understands. <<<<<<<<<

#might as well suggest my asexual ass is claiming to reproduce via budding while you’re at it. you know #versions of this happen all the time #huge contextualizing tag ramble coming. sorry #rn i’m thinking of a post the other day where someone was like #‘actually all christians are evangelical. so………’#and i mean. it wasn’t like #‘i think this emerged terminology is weird bc evangelising isn’t exclusive to those ones’#it was like. you know. like they CLEARLY thought that quirk of terminology meant #that all prior discussion and criticism n what have u of Evangelical Christians™️#should be equally and indiscriminately applied to the whole concept bc theoretically the *name* being used for that specific thing could be #and like. no bb i’m sorry you don’t have the perspective or context or whatever to appreciate this is discussion of #a particular subgroup with like. its own broadly-applicable tendencies n problems n attitudes n behaviors #imagine if you were discussing smth about Baptists [sect] n someone walked in like #‘uhhhh 🤨 other christians do baptism too…so you mean all of them actually…’#you know. weird and reductive #if you’ve been unable to gather from context what people r talking about here #and you like google ‘what does evangelize mean’#or whatever the fuck #maybe it’d be good to stop and wonder if ur the kind of expert that should be trynna correct people

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